Posted on 09/05/2016 7:53:50 PM PDT by DaveinOK54
This link should take you to Season 1, Episode 1 of the entire series. I grew up with this and thought some of my fellow Freepers might enjoy it.
Mods feel free to move if need be.
Later on, I watched Combat episodes projected on the side of a tent in Vietnam.
We always considered that somewhat amusing!
I distinctly remembered only one episode over the years (I’ll watch them again, thanks sooooo much) where a country boy with a twang could spot the snipers in the trees because the bunches of leaves didn’t belong there. I providentially gave that advice to my son.
..”this is White Rook,over...”
Thanks for a sudden memory jolt—a pleasant one.
-PJ
That might be right, I guess I need some binge refreshing. It’s been a while since I was in grade school.
But Rat Patrol had the best intro. The Flying Fifty.
It must have been due to different time zones,but I remember watching both shows on Tuesday nights. Combat! Came on from 7:30 to 8:30. Red Skelton came on next on CBS. Jack Benny next after that. These three shows made Tuesday nights back then my favorite TV night.
Got my TV war fix from Combat! & Twelve o’Clock High. Bought a set of DVD’s and there was a bonus set of all the Rat Patrol episodes. I suffered through 2 episodes and asked myself how I could’ve thought that was cool, but I WAS only a 12yo at that time. They portrayed a side view of a P-51 Mustang as a Messerschmidt; I cried Enough! and shelved the lot.
Bookmark!
One of my favorites as well. The squad was in serious trouble with no way out. I thought at least one of the crew was to die. Whew. :-)
“Combat was in black and white for the first few seasons to take advantage of actual footage from WW2.”
Our TeeVee was in black and white, too. LOL!
And we LIKED it.
I absolutely LOVED that show.
One that I found troubling, though, was the one where Sgt. Saunders got 2nd and 3rd degree burns on both hands up to the elbows.
And the following week, he was ALL BETTER!
A MIRACLE!!!! (LOL)
Combat - The original “Band of Brothers.”
Bookmark
They’ve been running that series on a cable channel called “H&I”, for Heroes & Icons. Also, NYPD BLUE, Hill Street Blues, all the Star Treks. Visual memorabilia.
“It must have been due to different time zones,but I remember watching both shows on Tuesday nights.”
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Could be - also some TV show times get switched from season to season. I remember both shows, good watchin’ back in the day.
>>Several episodes were filmed at Korbel Winery in Guerneville, CA.
That’s a worthwhile tourist destination, by the way. Korbel is part of the early economic history of California. They did a lot of things besides wine in the early days, and this gets discussed in the winery tour.
“Korbel is part of the early economic history of California.”
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That would make me an investor.
:D
Did anyone notice that the first episode was directed by Robert Altman? Yes I know he’s a lib but he is a fine director.
My dad was a WWII combat wounded paratrooper who
watched every war movie he could get his hands on and was
no fan of Skelton. Having had a rural, agricultural
history the old man had a particular problem with the
Clem Kadittlehopper character as played by Red. However,
pops was working late lots of times so the sisters would
team with mom and my brother and I would be SOL.
Fun to share these old family 60s stories!
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